Quick Guide to Affording Our Future

Published 11 Jul 2013

Affording Our Future, the Treasury's 2013 Statement on the Long-Term Fiscal Position, was tabled in Parliament on 11 July 2013. This Quick Guide sets out some key messages from that Statement.

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Quick Guide Affording our future will require adjustments So we face a Long-Term Fiscal challenge Meeting the challenge Option: Index personal income tax thresholds to price inflation, but not to real wage growth Fiscal implications Broader living standards implications Option: Increase the GST rate to 17.5% Fiscal implications Broader living standards implications Option: Reduce projected rate of growth in public healthcare spending Fiscal implications Broader living standards implications Option: Raise the age of eligibility for NZ Super to 67 and index payments to price inflation rather than wages Fiscal implications Broader living standards implications	ltfs-13-aof-qg.pdf 220 KB) pp. (2),1–10

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